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Adolpho 68M
3303 posts
8/29/2015 4:40 pm
More black data from New Orleans

From: Lilly Workneh

Unemployment rates

The most recent data shows that 52 percent of black males in New Orleans are unemployed. In comparison, that number stood at 48 percent in 2000.

“This single statistic is potentially the single largest contributor to many of our societal ills,” the report reads.

In 2005, the overall black unemployment was 18.5 percent -- for white residents it was 4.1 percent. By 2013, black and white unemployment rates stood at 13.6 percent and 4.6 percent, respectively. (The national unemployment rate as of July stood at 5.3 percent.)



Poverty Rates

With income rates low and unemployment rates high, the dots connect to help explain why more than 50 percent of the city’s black under the age of 18 live in poverty. That percentage equates to more than 45,000 and has grown since 2005 when the black youth poverty rate was 44 percent.

“The poverty gap creates a cause for an even greater concern,” Erica McConduit-Diggs, the President of the Urban League Chapter Of Greater New Orleans, told HuffPost. "But it makes sense right? When you don’t have a job or even for those that do have a job, you’re actually not earning a livable wage so it effects the that are still living in poverty."

Education


Education in New Orleans is one of the marginally hopeful examples of some of the improvements that have taken place since the storm. Ten years ago, nearly 75 percent of the schools in New Orleans were failing by state standards, according to the report. That number now stands at 7 percent, while the high school graduation rate has increased from 54 percent to 73 percent. The city is now the national leader in black male graduation rates.

Some of this success can be attributed to the $1.8 billion invested in repairing many of the schools that were demolished in the storm. But there have also been quite a few initiatives to help get New Orleans' youth on track.

Higher education rates for women have increased in the city, too -- 21 percent of black females earned bachelor degrees or higher in 2013 (compared with 19 percent in 2005). In contrast, 13.7 percent of black men are earning the same degrees (down from 19 percent in 2005).

“It goes to show you various different dynamics that our are experiencing in their households,” Jamar McKneely, CEO and Co-founder of InspireNola charter schools, which represents two faculty-run schools, told The Huffington Post. “They're just looking for somebody who can believe in them to provide a safe, secure atmosphere. Somebody they can just talk to and... give them a sense of normalcy that, as a black male, as a black female, that we can want more.”

“It's a whole process of being able to just really expose the youth and get them to kind of see something different, to want more from themselves," McKneely added. "Otherwise, everyday on our news, we're seeing killings."